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Growing Your Own Alaska Food Forest

A food forest uses available garden space to combine food producing plant species. This multi-layer composition can be low-maintenance, combining trees, shrubs and ground cover in order to produce edible foods including herbs, fruits, seeds and nuts.

This is ideal to increase the amount of organic food in your diet.

An element of permaculture design, the food forest includes seven layers from the canopy down through the rhizosphere.

In Alaska, here are some examples of routinely available plants available at a garden center near you.

Propogated by Seed, the field mustard enjoys a bloom period in Late Spring. the fruit/seed period runs from Summer to Summer.

A member of the Mustard family, the common name for Brassica rapa is field mustard. Requiring a minimum temperature of -13°F, it has a Low tolerance of drought.

Introduced to AK, the field mustard is common in food forests. It grows in areas with a minimum of 35 inches of annual rainfall.

You may live in a micro-climate or area of Alaska where some species don’t thrive or fruit.

Be sure to consult your neighborhood garden supply store and read more online to find the plants, shrubs and ground cover that work for your food forest.

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